Egg-case filler



April 20, 1926. 1,531,174

W. D. COIL EGG CASE FILLER Filed June 18, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 awuwbdz WILL'AM D. cm L April 20 1926. 1,581,174

W. D. COIL EGG CASE FILLER Filed June 18, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 3 2 I L f I 6' J (a Q 1 if 10/ F1; .5. 8 Fig.6.

WILLIAM B .COIL

Patented Apr. 20, 192G.

PATENT OFFICE.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM D. COIL, OF HUNCIE, INDIANA.

EGG-CASE FILLER.

Application and June 18, 1925. Serial No. 37,945.

To all whom it may, concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. Coin, a citizen .of the United States, residing at Muncie, in the county of Delaware and ,State of Indiana, have invented certain new lateral movement. It is an improvement on the device shown and described in prior Letters Patent 1,308,578, patented J uly. 1, 1919.

Asexplained in that i'ior patent there has been considerable diihculty experienced in the use of egg case fillers from the fact that the eggs are aptto be broken in the transporting of. same and especially where they are shipped in cars that endanger the eggs by reason of the .jolting of the cars.

This improvement is so constructed that in the event an egg does break, there will be a minimum danger of the contents of: the broken e 'g spreading over adjacent eggs and to this end there is formed on the flat a raised portion so placed in relation to ribs thatthere are formed troughsfor carrying the contents away from the adjacent eggs.

In the acompanying drawings; Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a case containing a plurality of fillers.

Fig. '2 is a plan view of a portion of the flat.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line a*w of Fig. 2.

Fig. at is a sectional view on. the line 3 g of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a detail view of a longitudinal stri Fig. 6 is a detail view of a cross strip.

Referring to the drawings, the case containing the fillers is marked 1 and I have preferably shown 'a case of such size as to contain five fillers. A filler consists of longitudinal'strips and cross strips so connected as to form a plurality of cells and referring to Fig. 1 the longitudinal strip is marked 2 and the cross strip is marked 3. The longitudinal strip is formed with a slotted opening marked 4 and a T-shaped slot 5 while the cross strip is formed with -a tongue shaped opening 6, this having a projecting shoulder 7 and these longitudinal and cross str ps are inter-engaged as shown and described in my prior Patent 1,308,578 such that the shoulder 7 is' locked in the slot '5 thereby holding the two strips secure ly locked together while a portion of the cross strips 3 projects above the top of the longitudinal strip. The flat is marked 8 and I it is formed with the ribs 9. shown and describedifi the prior patent and there are shown Seven of these ribs extending transfversely to the longitudinal strips so that a longitudinal strip placed on top of the flat will have the slot 10 at the. bottom of the longitudinal strip engaging on the rib 9 as clearly shown in Fig. 3 and asdescribed in my-prior patent. There are raised portions 11 formed on the fiat and extending between the ribs. There are trough shaped portions formed between the raised portions 11 and the ribs 9 so that whenever an egg which rests on the raised portion should break the 'contents will flow into the trough shaped portions and thereby protect adjacent eggs from being marred by the contents of the broken egg.

These raised portions 11 have ribs 12 which extend parallel with the longitudinal strips so that when a longitudinal strip is placed upon theflat the bottom of the longitudinal strip will not only rest on the apex of the rib 9, but will also lie between two of the ribs 12 and thereby the longitudinal strip and the filler of which the longitudinal strip is apart will be held against lateral movement while the contact of the slot 10 in the bottom of the longitudinal strip with the rib 9 will prevent the filler from'having any longitudinal movement. There is preferably shown between the ribs formed on the raised portion small raised dot like projections marked 13 and at the center there is preferably shown a small depression 14 and the advantage of these small raised parts is to prevent the egg being broken if it is carelessly dropped within the cell because these little parts 13 will have a tendency to give while the depression 14 will tend to center the egg properly on the raised surface.

It is apparent that the rib 9 not only will accommodate and hold securely the bottom of the longitudinal. strip against longitudinal movement, but it will also accommodate the upper portion of the transverse strip which projects within the rib as indicated in Fig. 3 thereby tending to hold the upper portion of the filler below the flat from longitudinal movement. In this manner the filler is very securely held with- I in the case 1 because the longitudinal strip is engaged at itsbotibm While the top of transverse strip is connected at its top and the longitudinal strips are also engaged at their bottom portions by the parallel ribs of the raised portion to prevent the filler from having any lateral movement.

In this way there is disclosed a flat in combination with a filler which locks the filler both at top and at bottom.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. The method of forming egg case fillers by first forming flats with trough shaped iribs and intermediate raised portions, thereafter assembling said flats with the strips of the fillers, whereby the upper part of one strip will be embraced by said rib and the lower part of a companion strip will embrace a rib of a companion flat, and will also be held on said raised portion, an unobstructed gutter being formed between the and held by the trough mediate of said ribs, whereby an unobstructed gutter will be formed betweenthe 1 formed to embrace said rib, said projecting t being formed to be embraced portions of the raised portion being adapted v to enga e said latter strip whereby the cell case wi 1 be securely locked in its assembled position.

4. In a device of the character described the combination of a plurality of series of longitudinal and cross strips locked together to form a filler, a. plurality of flats having trough portions and raised portions between the trough portions, the upper part of one strip onone side of each flat being engaged shaped part and a companion strip on t e other side of said flat having its bottom portion engaged both by the trough sha ed part and also by the raised portion, w ere y said latter strip will be locked against movement in two d1- rections.

5. A flat having a plurality of corrugated ribs, raised rtions adjacent said ribs, there being troug s between said ribs and raised ortions and the raised portions "having ribs in their upper surfaces.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of June, 1925.

WILLIAM 1). com 

